Sentences with phrase «quadrillion watts»
As the sun flushes heat into our atmosphere at a mind - boggling rate of 175 quadrillion watts, the air near the equator absorbs more energy than the air near the poles.
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We also find heat sloshing around the world's oceans, which absorb 93 quadrillion watts of the sun's energy — a hundred thousand times more power than could be produced by all the power plants in the United States put together.
The sun pumps out some 383 quadrillion watts of energy every second thanks to fusion.
Lasers that can produce a brief terawatt, or trillion - watt, burst are commonplace, and petawatt lasers capable of generating a quadrillion watts are possible.
So multiply by the number of hours in a week to get 17 trillion watts X168 hours / week = 2856 trillion watt hours of energy storage = 2.86 x 10 exponent 15 = almost 3 quadrillion watt hours.
Not exact matches
The laser fires quadrillion - watt pulses into a thin, 9 - centimeter - long sapphire tube filled with hydrogen gas.
According to the US Department of Energy (Energy Information Administration), the world consumption of energy in all of its forms (barrels of petroleum, cubic meters of natural gas, watts of hydro power, etc.) is projected to reach 678 quadrillion Btu (or 715 exajoules) by 2030 — a 44 % increase over 2008 levels (levels for 1980 were 283 quadrillion Btu and we stand at around 500 quadrillion Btu today in 2009).
According to the US Department of Energy (Energy Information Administration), the world consumption of energy in all of its forms (barrels of petroleum, cubic meters of natural gas, watts of hydro power, etc.) is projected to reach 678 quadrillion Btu (or 7.15 exajoules) by 2030 - a 44 % increase over 2008 levels (levels for 1980 were 283 quadrillion Btu and we stand at around 500 quadrillion Btu today).